corap61•22d agoProlific Poster

I dropped $150 on a show subscription bundle and it was a total scam

I saw this ad for a bundle that gave access to 5 streaming services for one price. It sounded perfect for binging all weekend. Paid $150 upfront and the first week was fine, then the shows started glitching and half the links were dead. Customer service ghosted me after I complained. Has anyone else fallen for one of those sketchy subscription deals?

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laura_wilson22d ago

I get why you're mad, but I actually think the risk is part of the deal with these bundles. Like, you're paying less than $30 a service, so of course corners get cut somewhere (especially with those smaller, no-name streaming sites). I've tried a few of these bundles and yeah, some links die fast, but I only ever paid month-to-month so I could bail when the quality dropped. $150 upfront feels like a gamble I wouldn't take either, but that's more on the fine print than the scam itself.

juliaa6522d ago

Oh wow $150 upfront?? That's insane. I wouldn't even pay that much for a year of Netflix let alone some no-name bundle. Whoever sold that to you must've been really smooth talking to get you to hand over that kind of cash.

adam41422d ago

Dude that's wild you actually paid upfront. $150 is a lot to just hand over without some kind of trial period or something. Those bundle deals always seem too good to be true, like they're promising the moon for cheap and then you're stuck with dead links and a customer service that's basically a ghost. I mean who even has the nerve to charge that much and then act like nothing's wrong? Hope you at least got your money back somehow because that's just robbery.